The Weekenders Quotes

“Losing a parent, I guess it makes you realize none of us is gonna be immortal.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“In times like these, I think it's a good policy to hope for the best, but expect the worst.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“trout and a flounder,”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“The pay was crap. My boss was an idiot. And the final straw was that she wanted me to demonstrate a colon cleanse. On the air.” Billy sniggered. “Talk about a shitty assignment.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Mom! It was so awesome,” Maggy enthused. “Me and Roo had our own hurricane party. The seagulls were, like, flying backward. And the clouds are so thick, you can’t even see Big Belle.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“I can’t wrangle bees. I’m terrified of stinging insects. Literally. I break out in hives.” “Hives! That’s adorbs, right?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“And the most important thing he told me was that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“You know, it’s been my family’s privilege to bury three generations of Nolans. And I knew Wendell from Kiwanis. He was a fine man. You have my condolences.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Wendell had looted the trust fund left to her by her grandfather and father, to the tune of six million dollars. And change.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“The door slammed shut behind her, and a moment later she heard what sounded like a tennis shoe being thrown against the wooden door. “I hate you!” Maggy screamed.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Hey, Mimi. Did that homophobe lady bring any dessert?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“You couldn’t hit the ball with a steam iron today,”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Murder?” Roo’s eyes shone with excitement. “Right here on Belle Isle?” “Roo!” Evelyn shook her head in exasperation. “For God’s sake, have you no sense of propriety?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Roo was a confirmed spinster, devoted birdwatcher and, to the chagrin of many of her relatives, a card-carrying liberal Democrat”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“She was a big ol’ ho,” Riley told her brother. “She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“She’s got the face of an angel and the soul of a pit bull–piranha hybrid.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Maggy’s diagnosis earlier in the year with juvenile onset type 1 diabetes had thrown them”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“café, and dozens of people wandering”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“Saturday evening, Riley was sprawled out on the flowered chintz sofa in the library, engrossed in a book she estimated she’d first read when she was Maggy’s age. It was a Helen MacInnes international espionage novel and, even without the spidery handwriting proclaiming it the property of Earline Riley on the flyleaf, she knew it had been her grandmother’s.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders

“It was a closely held family”
― Mary Kay Andrews, The Weekenders